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We find ourselves in challenging times. To meet them more easily, I believe involves challenging ourselves to move beyond old, established habits and patterns.

Perhaps I am a bit late fully entering into the 21st century by starting my blog now, in 2010! In that my work and message has so much to do with slowing down and settling into a deeper knowing beyond and prior to our cultural modes, it may be appropriate to step extra slowly into the world of blogging and other cyber realities.

I suspect that, if you are drawn to my blog and the words here, you may also value this slower, deeper state we are all capable of. I invite you to read on and regularly, and hope the words below can support you in enhancing your ability to be, even in the midst of all the doing required in our modern world.

Wednesday, 10 December 2014

Embryo Earth and Cosmos: Cultivating Resonance and Resilience

In our natural state, we are resilient, fluid beings, full
of potential, like the early embryo. In the beginning, as simple cellular
creatures, we consist primarily of fluid. One fertilized egg cell, the largest
human cell due to its enormous amount of cytoplasm, will somehow, miraculously,
develop into a very complex human body. What guides and directs this miracle
remains mysterious. Research is beginning to demonstrate, however, what has
always been understood by healers and intuitives. Our formation is informed by
subtle energetic communications. We apparently form in light or quantum fields
first and then in our physical bodies. These fields seemingly inform the cells
and tissues, guiding their activities. For example, scientists observing frog
embryos were surprised to witness the frog face forming energetically before it
was visible in the physical embryo. You can view this yourself on You Tube at: http://youtu.be/0VULjzX__OM.
Scientist Mae-Won Ho also discovered that simple unicellular organisms have a
quantum field with a quantum midline, which reacts to changes in the
environment before the physical organism does. She writes about this in her
book, The Rainbow and the Worm. Other
researchers, like the Austrian “water wizard,” Viktor Shauberger, and medical
science researcher, Arthur Winfree, noted that everything in nature is
organized within an energetic torus-shaped field or fields, each with a central
mid-line. We humans are similarly organized within energetic fields.

The late Emilie
Conrad, founder of Continuum Movement, recognized through her almost fifty
years of inquiry into our fluid nature, that all fluids resonate with each
other. In introducing Continuum, she speaks of fluid in our bodies, fluid in
the planet and fluid in the galaxy being “engaged in a resonant stream of
bio-cosmic nourishment”(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAacwbfveys).
Our human expression is continuous with the fluidic expressions of the earth
and cosmos. As embryos, our resonance is relatively clear and unobscured. The
embryo is in direct communication with the cosmos, and apparently with the same
organizing fields of energy guiding the formation of stars, galaxies, rivers,
iguanas and human embryos. We can, therefore, benefit from returning to an
embryonic state, where we can remember once more that clarity of being.

Deepening into
Resonance

When we slow down and listen deeply, we discover waves,
spirals and pulsations move within us as within earth and cosmos. We resonate
with a profound intelligence forming and supporting all of us. This is a common
experience in Continuum Movement. Emilie Conrad was fascinated by the Schumann wave.
She believed our everyday activities accelerate us, and that the breaths,
sounds and subtle movements of Continuum slowed our human rhythms down,
returning to resonance with natural waves of earth and cosmos. The Schumann
wave is 7.8 Hz. Conrad suspected those practicing Continuum could resonate with
this and eventually even slower frequencies.

Traditional peoples lived in harmony with the earth and
valued their relationship with earth and cosmos. The Navaho, for example, practiced
ceremony to communicate with the cosmos, which they saw as essential to their
well-being and that of the earth. Native Americans speak of their drumming as “the
heartbeat of the earth.” Drumming and dancing to the rhythms of the drums
apparently takes the participants into resonance with nature, and has been used
by peoples all over the world for healing.

Our modern western life style takes us far from these natural
rhythms. Conrad perceived our tissue anatomy as changing consistency and
function with the speed of daily life. She described three tissue anatomies. The
cultural anatomy, present in everyday “fetch wood, carry water” activities,
involves our reaction to speed and stress. Our tissues become denser. Our focus
narrows. Our sympathetic, fight-flight nervous system is activated. We are
designed to be in this state for short periods of time, to escape the saber-toothed
tiger, perhaps, or to run after our prey. We are meant to then return to a more
relaxed state, where our parasympathetic, rest-and-rejuvenation nervous system
can be more active, supporting our immune system, digestion, sleep and other
rejuvenative functions. This involves slowing down, which shifts our
frequencies.

As we decelerate, Conrad found our tissues begin to soften,
melt and become less dense. Our perception widens. We can experience more of
the whole, rather than focusing in on one urgent goal. We enter what Conrad termed
the primordial anatomy. In this more fluid state, we may feel like a little embryo
floating in nutritive amniotic fluid. We find ourselves accessing our early
potential as embryos, deepening under our life patterns. Here, we may re-form
ourselves within a different, more supportive context than the family or
environment we may have actually grown in prenatally. Conrad often spoke of the
embryo, like the cosmos, being made of spiraled water. Water is a highly
resonant element. As fluid beings, embryos resonate directly with the cosmos.
When we slow down even further, we enter the third tissue anatomy, the cosmic
anatomy. Here, in direct resonance with cosmic bio-fields, we experience
ourselves more as energetic beings, suspended in space. From my work with
Craniosacral Biodynamics, I recognize these three tissues anatomies as parallel
to the three bodies we perceive in Biodynamics, each expressing different
subtle rhythms: physical, fluid and the field of radiance of the long tide.
Other practices and traditions also describe
similar fields within fields.

If we look at the cosmos, we see remarkably beautiful, radiant
spirals. Images of human anatomy alsoLife
on Land,

reveal spirals throughout the body. Our
muscles spiral out from the midline represented by the spine. The connective
tissues and fascia enveloping the muscles and connecting the whole of our
bodies can be seen as spiraled lines spanning the entire length of the body. We
are not so different from the cosmos! We are still spiraled water, like the
embryo. As Conrad declares in her book,

“We are not separate
from the fluid that spirals us as embryos. We are that spiraled fluid.
Pulsating waves create the ocean behind all human activities. We are water
beings destined to live on land on a mission that is unknowable.” (p. 293).

Healing Humans,
Planets and Galaxies

In healing work like Continuum Movement and Craniosacral
Biodynamics, we find that slowing down and returning to more natural, essential
rhythms of life support health and well-being. While this applies to the
Continuum mover or Biodynamic client, the benefits seem to extend well beyond
the individual. If we are fluidic resonant beings, how can we even for a moment
consider ourselves as separate from all other fluidity? If a butterfly flapping
its wing in Japan can set off a tornado across the world, as the butterfly
effect proposes, how can the speed in our lives, our breath and our bodies not
affect our planet?

Our modern, western world is based on attitudes of
individuality, isolation and separation, all of which are wreaking havoc on our
planet as well as her inhabitants. If our resonance is as extensive as it
seems, our unbalanced way of living may also be affecting the larger
environment including the space we send our space ships into, other planets, and
even other galaxies. It may be our responsibility to begin taking care of ourselves
in basic ways that can counter this tendency for imbalance. Is it not time for
us to acknowledge our connectedness to all things? And cognitive
acknowledgement is not enough. If we do not return to an embodied state of
connectedness, there is no ground for believing it is so. Without our bodies
experience to inform us, we are simply talking about ideas of connection
without knowing what this means.

In support of our embodied knowing and return to resonant
connection with all beings and all things, I am facilitating a new Continuum
Movement workshop emphasizing our resonance with nature and the inherent
bio-rhythms we share with a continuum of being. More information on the
workshop is available on my website at: www.cherionna.com.

For more information and to register for my workshop Embryo, Earth and Cosmos: Resonance and
Resilience with Continuum Movement, happening this weekend in Totnes, Devon
and in April in Vancouver, BC, please check my website at http://www.cherionna.com/classwrk.html

Thanks for your question, Julie. This is not something I"m familiar with. What do you mean by "recently"? I know we have gone through structural changes in relation to being vertical bipeds. Interesting question!